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I started out in experimental nuclear physics, which really means I had to deal with a lot of computer simulations which output a lot of text. I started using Perl to extract the parts of those reports that I needed.

How fun, that's exactly how I started Perl. (I was an intern at EDF -- Electricité De France -- at this time.)